Icon!

[active_apathy]

And... that's about it. It was a boring day, apart from the first four episodes of Buffy, one of which prompted this icon. This is fun, because it's also useful as an icon for my newfound student-ness.

Hopefully, tomorrow can be more interesting.

Comments

[beanpop.livejournal.com]

Hi there, I have a question for you! Do you know how to make it so that, when you crop something in Photoshop, it does it in an exact square? daphyn told me that you would probably know. If you do, please let me know! =) Thank you!

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

The simplest way to do that is to hold down shift while you're dragging out the box to crop.

Holding down shift while resizing something in Photoshop makes it keep whatever it is in proportion; doing it for things like selection areas and shapes that don't exist yet makes their width and height equal.

The lazier way of doing it - and the one I use - will also resize it for you. To save on a long description with the word 'thingy' used a billion times, I have pictures.

when you select the crop tool, you can tell it how big you want the results to be by typing in the two boxes circled here in red. You don't have to set both - if you want to crop something to 100px wide but don't know (or care) how high it should be, then you can just give it a width of 100px.

You then select the area you want cropped as normal, but it'll automatically keep it in proportion, like so:

When you're happy with it, tell Photoshop to crop it and it'll resample it for free (ie, without you having to). You get something like this:

Without doing anything more, this tiger:

becomes this:

[beanpop.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! =)